Incarnate Buddha Ornaments

unknownUnified Silla, 8th century

Gyeongju National Museum

The excavated artifacts include 26 pieces of craftwork featuring a single incarnate Buddha. The face was simply outlined without any detailed description and most of them depicted a canopy used to shield a Buddha statue. Given the elaborate casting technique and the succinct design with clouds minimally expressed as dots, they are estimated to have been made in the mid-8th century or earlier.